All Building Design articles in 28 March 2008 – Page 4

  • Hodge: eclipsed by design
    Opinion

    It's all front

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The smiling face of Margaret Hodge in last week’s BD was eclipsed by the bulkhead behind her screaming for attention through the Barking fenestration.

  • Glass act: Koolhaas’s design.
    Opinion

    It's all clear

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Sculptor Anish Kapoor has deep pockets and is a sucker for punishment.

  • Features

    After the good ship Architecture

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    The world’s great port cities are architectural wonders — but the new wave of buildings in Liverpool is execrable

  • Features

    Dot to Dot: March 28

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win a copy of China Design Now, a guide to the V&A exhibition

  • Opinion

    Dot to dot results: 20 March

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s competition winner was Paul Middleton of Partnerships for Schools, who identified Mother’s House by Robert Venturi.

  • Masterplan with library in pink
    News

    Koolhaas and Foster on shortlist for new Birmingham library

    2008-03-27T18:32:00Z

    A glittering shortlist of seven firms including Foster & Partners, Foreign Office, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and OMA are competing to design a replacement for John Madin’s Library of Birmingham.In an announcement released today, Birmingham council confirmed the names, alongside Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Dutch firm Mecanoo, following consideration ...

  • Paul Stallan
    News

    Teachers call for greater design role

    2008-03-27T00:00:00Z

    The government must give teachers a far greater role in school design and introduce new standards for refurbishment of existing buildings, a major teaching union has claimed.

  • News

    BD contest paves the way for Robin Hood revival

    2008-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Architects are being challenged to create a new vision for Robin Hood Gardens in a design competition launched by BD and the Architecture Foundation this week.

  • Patriarch apartment building, Moscow, Sergei Tkachenko Studio.
    Review

    Project Russia’s Bart Goldhoornon on Russian architecture after Communism

    2008-03-27T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Croft gets to grips with two decades of post-Soviet architecture at the AA

  • Blogs

    News Junkie — 21 - 24 March

    2008-03-26T10:31:00Z

    Fire, Brimstone and sleet this Easter with religious and financial messages of doom. Australian design ineptitude and the future of energy.